This what you do...

when there's a March snowstorm in Boston, and you had already decided last week to take the day off.

You laze around most of the day, opting to stay home rather than drive to the gym and lose your snow emgergency parking spot. Do the laundry, make friends with Denise Austin and hope it starts to snow soon.

Then decide to take the "T" to meet a friend for a movie. Put on your Bass snow boots, your favorite red scarf, the hat you just made because you lost your last one. Then frantically search through all your winter coats for your good gloves and put on your Boston-issue uniform black peacoat.

Take the train for only two stops, get off at Harvard Square, realize this may be your last snow in Boston. Remember you love Harvard Square when its snowing.

After the movie, you and your friend see that is still snowing and it's twilight already. She is brilliant and grabs free newpapers as shields against the fierce wind, and you march to Burdicks. Order thier insanely rich dark hot chocolate and cup-in-hand trudge back to the "T" and home.

On the walk home realize the simpleness of meeting a friend for a movie during a snowstorm, the warmth of the best hot chocolate, the ease with which you live your life here in this town and at this time, the way the streetlamps illuminate the still falling snow are things you will miss if you move to the suburbs of another city.